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Re: even elder races get tired of waiting
From: |
Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: even elder races get tired of waiting |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:33:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jean Louis wrote:
>> I get:
>>
>> Lisp:
>>
>> (time-from 1964 07 26 0 0 0 2021 03 22 0 0 0) ; 56y 253d 0h 0m 0s
>>
>> zsh/dateutils.ddiff:
>>
>> $ time-from 1964-07-26
>> 56y 7m 24d 0h 0min 0s
>>
>> (Oh, no, now I see, not even normalized output format...)
>
> (age "1964-07-26") → 56 years 7 months 27 days
>
> Now we can see that not only you miss 3 days, she misses
> three days as well, maybe it was the sauna.
>
> Jean
>
> P.S. Who is right, PostgreSQL or diffutils?
Let's see ... don't we have any software to answer
that question? :)
The Lisp [1] cannot be easily normalized because `format-seconds'
do years and seconds but not months:
Use format control STRING to format the number SECONDS.
The valid format specifiers are:
%y is the number of (365-day) years.
%d is the number of days.
%h is the number of hours.
%m is the number of minutes.
%s is the number of seconds.
%z is a non-printing control flag (see below).
%% is a literal "%".
Do it all into days only? Then I can use my other Lisp [same
file]
(days-from-date "1964-07-26" "2021-03-22") ; 20693
And the zsh [2]
$ time-from 1964-07-26
56y 7m 24d 0h 0min 0s (20693 days)
and... *drumroll*
(= 20693 20693) ; t
Oh no Jean, this doesn't look good for you :)
[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/time-cmp.el
[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/time
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